Kindley House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Kindley House is a historic house at 503 Charlotte Street in Gravette, Arkansas, United States. It is a two-story brick building, set on a heavy stone foundation, with a hip roof and an L-shape configuration that includes a small single-story section in the crook of the L.”
Wikipedia article Kindley House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 503 Charlotte St., Gravette, 72736
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Benton County MRA
Township. Township 4
National Register reference number. 87002356 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Kindley House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 651 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 August 2012	Natural	22 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2012	Natural	44 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kindley House: 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Independent Gravel Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gravette, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 21 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 8 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2014	Lightning	Gravette	1 hurt	Lightning struck and injured a 43 year old man, who was taken to the hospital due to his injuries.
March 1998	Tornado (F1)	Gravette	$100,000	Considerable damage was reported with an F1 tornado and thunderstorm winds that blew through Gravette. Three homes in the area were damaged when large trees blew over. One of the houses' occupants described the storm as sounding like a freight train. Other homes had minor roof damage. High winds downed a power line, which left the east side of the city without power for about 35 to 40 minutes. Doors were blown out of the Hendren Plastics plant on Hwy. 72 in eastern Gravette. A tree was blown onto Hwy. 72 near Gravette, making travel impossible until it was removed around 10 pm. Another tree was blown across Ridge Road.
March 2024	Hail	Gravette	$50,000	Baseball size hail damaged vehicles, homes, and businesses.
October 2019	Flash Flood	Gravette	$50,000	Portions of Bethel Road were washed out west of Stage Coach Road.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	$50,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew trees onto a carport, damaging two vehicles, and blew down a tree onto a storage shed, destroying it.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	$50,000	Strong thunderstorm wind damaged several poultry houses and snapped trees near town.
March 2024	Hail	Gravette	$40,000	Tennis ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	$25,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several cinder block walls at the new high school, which was under construction.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	$20,000	A tree was blown down onto a house by strong thunderstorm wind near Beaty and Leonard Ranch roads.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	$15,000	A large oak tree was blown into the front of a residence on Third Avenue SW in Gravette. Luckily, the family residing in the house was out of town, and there were no injuries. In Gravette, several trees and limbs were blown down, blocking traffic on several streets. TV antennae were also blown down by the strong thunderstorm winds, and electrical service was disrupted for about two hours.
January 2008	Flash Flood	Gravette	$10,000	Heavy rains caused rising water which carried a mobile home 50 feet.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	$6,000	A U-Haul trailer was blown over, and power lines were blown down in Gravette.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines and damaged a few trees.
July 2018	Hail	Gravette	$5,000	no account filed
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines on Highway 72, uprooted a couple trees, and snapped large tree limbs.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour damaged a roof and blew down several large trees.
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	$1,500	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	$1,000	Numerous trees were blown down.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.
May 2022	Flood	Gravette	-	Portions of Highway 59 between Gravette and Sulphur Springs were flooded and closed.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Gravette	-	Portions of Highway 72 were flooded and closed.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees onto roads in Gravette.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	-	Strong thunderstorm wind gusts snapped large tree limbs.
December 2015	Flash Flood	Gravette	-	Heavy rainfall flooded Leonard Ranch Road. A swift water rescue was conducted after a vehicle was driven into the flood water.
December 2015	Flash Flood	Gravette	-	Rocky Dale Hollow, Falling Springs, Prichard and Big Springs Roads were closed due to flooding.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees.
October 2014	Flash Flood	Gravette	-	Flooding was reported south of Highway 72 near Stagecoach Road.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	-	Several trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. Some of the tree limbs fell on roads.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Gravette	-	Heavy rain caused 32 roads to be closed across Benton County. Five bridges were under water.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Gravette	-	Heavy rains caused severe street flooding in the city of Gravette.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down onto a road.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Gravette	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down some trees.
April 1994	Hail	Gravette	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few tree limbs.
February 2023	Hail	Gravette	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Gravette	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Gravette	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Gravette	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Gravette	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Gravette	-	no account filed
February 2001	Hail	Gravette	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Gravette	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Gravette	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Gravette	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Kansas City Southern Railway Caboose #383	0.4 miles	2010
Bolin Barn and Smokehouse	3.7 miles	1988
Shiloh House	3.9 miles	1988
Sulphur Springs Old School Complex Historic District	4.1 miles	2001
Jones House	4.3 miles	1988
Camp Crowder Gymnasium	4.3 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002356 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton County	All 162 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.